America's First Black Economist
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Eighty years ago, Sadie Alexander was writing on the devaluation of household work, a topic that has only recently been covered by graduate economics programs. That’s just one of the ways the pioneering economist was ahead of her time, says Bucknell University professor Nina Banks. Alexander recognized the importance of black and white workers joining together in solidarity and unionizing, and saw a federal full employment program as economically vital. Alexander is one of many early feminist economists whose writings and ideas Banks believes we must revisit.
Banks also discusses her other research projects, including her analysis of women’s (and especially women of color’s) unpaid work-not just in the house, but also as activists in the community.
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Fabulous
Great presentation
Providing jobs is one of the governments tasks as part of elevating society, which is their mission statement. Providing jobs to minorities melds the races as it satisfies basic hunger for self worth. The affluent must pay for these shifts in the form of domestic projects directed at hiring within a community improving basic life within that community. She's dead on.
@Buddy Love you are wrong. It's government's sole purpose to promote society. If not, we don't need any government. Let's try anarchy. Stupidity Is another product this government has produced particularly in the last 50-70 years.
It is assumed by most people nowadays that all work is useful, and by most well-to-do people that all work is desirable. Most people, well-to-do or not, believe that, even when a man is doing work which appears to be useless, he is earning his livelihood by it - he is "employed," as the phrase goes; and most of those who are well-to-do cheer on the happy worker with congratulations and praises, if he is only "industrious" enough and deprives himself of all pleasure and holidays - in the sacred cause of labour. In short, it has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself - a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper. - William Morris
Very insightful! I’m going to look the author up and learn more of his thoughts.
What about bringing back manufacturing to the USA and the Western world?
I thought WEB Dubois was the first Black Economist.
INET is getting ridiculous.
what did i just watch?
“Sadie Alexander was the first African American economist in the United States… she spend her life as a lawyer.”
Call me old fashioned but I thought we learnt engineering from engineers, medicine from medics and economics from economists?
Facts.. that should show you how she was an anomaly. Took on both sides to gain a more well rounded perception of what was going on around her.
This professor doesn't know Sadie Alexander's views on the market, or economics in general 😂
She fought for policies that are economically illiterate, and resulted in HIGHER not lower unemployment for blacks. See a real black economist like Thomas Sowell instead.
Good point. That’s ONE person, considering the hundreds on economists that lived a life well aware of the boondoggles in our countries & still advocated and supported strategically counterproductive practices and policies for select groups of people. I mean yeah she did what you said but at who’s fault?
She was utilizing the left over data and perspectives of the corrupt.